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Yen

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Japan’s $62bn support for yen provides little reprieve

    Currency’s slide towards 34-year lows resumes as finance ministry reveals scale of market intervention

    A man walks past an electronic screen displaying yen-US dollar and other foreign currency exchange rates in Tokyo on Sunday
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The limits of yen intervention

    Unilateral efforts to prop up Japan’s currency are expensive and potentially futile

    Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Can the strong dollar be tamed?

    US currency likely to stay stronger for longer with little obvious on the horizon to dent its strength

    A display of dollar bills
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese economy
    Japan used $59bn to prop up the yen but consumers may still cut back

    Government interventions this week fail to ease concerns about plunging currency

    Pedestrians walk in front of an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan is haunted by a return to emerging-economy status

    The battering sustained by the yen since January is causing alarm in some quarters

    A man walks in front of electronic boards displaying the Japanese yen/US dollar exchange rate and Tokyo Stock Exchange share price close on May 1
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Japanese government spent $35bn to prop up yen, BoJ figures suggest

    Central bank data all but confirms Monday’s market intervention, as currency resumes slide against US dollar

    A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Yen rebound signals Japanese government intervention, traders say

    Currency slid past ¥160 a dollar before regaining strength in a matter of hours

    A monitor shows the US dollar/Japanese yen exchange rate in Tokyo
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    Yen sinks to 34-year low after Bank of Japan holds interest rates near zero

    Governor Kazuo Ueda says weakening currency is having ‘no major impact’ on underlying inflation

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda at a press conference in Tokyo in March
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    News in-depthBank of Japan
    Japan feels inflation heat from Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ shift

    Yen’s 34-year low against dollar complicates task for BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda a month after ending negative rates era

    BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Currencies
    Asia’s central bankers struggle to contain strong US dollar

    Shifting US interest rate expectations put pressure on Japan’s yen and China’s renminbi

    Call loan brokers at work on the trading floor of brokerage Tokyo Tanshi in Tokyo
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Currencies
    US, Japan and South Korea seek to limit dollar’s rise

    Tokyo and Seoul voice ‘serious concerns’ after currencies hit by shift in interest rate expectations

    Currency traders pass by a screen showing the Kospi and exchange rate between the US dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of KEB Hana Bank’s headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Currencies
    Dollar hits 34-year high against yen after US inflation data

    Move past ¥153 sparks speculation that Japan could intervene to support currency

  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    A new day dawns for the yen

    Japan’s negative interest rate era ended last week. Its currency stability era could end shortly

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
    Making sense of a wrong-way bet on the yen

    Among the largest developed-market peers, the Japanese currency has lost the most against the dollar this year

    A banknote of Japanese yen
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Japan steps up intervention warnings as yen slides to weakest level since 1990

    Finance minister says government will ‘not rule out any steps against any excessive moves’

    A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    End of negative interest rates in Japan raises threat of yen volatility

    International investors and foreign governments have used the currency as a reliable vehicle for low-cost borrowing

    The trading room inside the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking head office in Tokyo, Japan
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessLeo Lewis
    Why an M&A swoop in Hawaii is a big bet on the yen

    Approach for Aloha state carrier seems timed to gain from a rally in the currency but there are factors working against that too

    A Hawaiian Airlines plane
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    Asia-Pacific equities
    Japanese stocks rally as investors’ rate rise fears wane

    Higher borrowing costs regarded as less likely due to economic fallout from New Year’s Day earthquake

  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    Yen falls after Bank of Japan sticks with negative interest rates

    Governor Kazuo Ueda says central bank in no rush to change monetary policy as Fed weighs cutting rates

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Yen set for best month this year as dollar weakens

    BoJ expected to raise interest rates next year, while Fed signals rate cuts ahead

    The yen has climbed 7 per cent against the dollar since the middle of November
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Yen leaps to 3-month high as traders bet on Bank of Japan rate increase

    Central bank governor Kazuo Ueda fuels speculation of end to negative rates with comments to parliament

    Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    ExplainerJapanese government bonds
    What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

    Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

    Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
    Central bank intervention
    The BoJ is, or isn’t, playing a blinder

    Deutsche Bank sees danger for the yen

  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    Yen under renewed pressure following BoJ policy tweak

    Currency sinks close to last intervention point after small adjustment to central bank policy

    Outside of Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    Bank of Japan under pressure from weak yen and soaring yields

    Two-day policy meeting could end with changes to trading band for government bonds

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
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